Fishing for Happiness

This guy has been stuck underneath the beauty of the world for a long time. He finally decided that he wanted out of that, so he began to fish for his happiness. The more he fishes, the happier he becomes. Now, he is almost completely out of the darkness, with just his feet left dangling. Don't get stuck at the bottom with the rest of the negative people..... break through and fish for your happiness.

Sun

The sun, who is usually bright and happy, fell in love with the girl on the life preserver. He fell so deeply in love that he is now drowning in his feelings for her and reaching out for help. Will she make his dreams come true, or just let him drown? It's all up to her.

House of Music

This is the house of music.....and not everyone can get in. This house is for real musicians and for true lovers of music only. No boy bands or auto-tune rappers allowed. Notice the tombstones for all the greats and the velvet rope for the VIPs.

Tanks

This is one of my all-time favorite pieces. The water in the tanks represents our energy and who we really are on the inside. The spiders represent the people who always try to bring us down. We all know them and have them in our lives - the haters, the competition and all the fake ass people. So you have to keep your resources safe, and not let them EVER get to it.

Green Bean

This guy is obsessed with growing tomatoes. He grows like a hundred different kinds and just gives them all away to everybody he knows. He's kinda weird, but he always brings me huge bags of the best tomatoes. So I listen to his stories, like the one about how he once grew this 10 pound tomato or whatever... Did I mention that he's Irish and Mexican - The Green Bean.

Elephant

The man at the bottom has been looking for his soulmate his entire life. It wasn't until lady luck brought her in on this elephant that he was able to find her. So now he can see her, but she's still so far away. He has to either find a way to get up to her, or convince her to come down.....

Venice

Take a ride down Venice Beach and see it for what it is in real life. The painting is a 1st person view of a person riding a bike into Venice Beach. The sun is fading and the birds are flying. The lady's foot is for what used to happen at the hostel, before it was a hostel. The hand holding up the building on the left is for all the people that hold Venice Beach up.

Hold On

Cry Me a River

This painting is about someone with a lot of sorrow on their mind. However, it doesn't stop them from moving forward. Some tears will be spilt on the ground and some will be saved for another day, but this person has no choice but to keep moving forward. Cup in one hand, cane in the other, it's a struggle, but always moving forward.

Flower Faces

These flowers are dropping acid. The one on the left is about to start peaking, the one in the middle can't stop laughing, the one on the right is already tirppin' hard, and the one on the bottom is just like, "I am so over this."

Drained

The man with wings in the boat is someone very important with some very important decisions to make. However, the boat is chained down in the water, which represents his thoughts, and he isn't able to move forward in his decision making. The scene is full of people watching, waiting to see if he will mend all of his broken promises. Underneath it all, there are golden eggs to be discovered if he is truthful, but all his lies have snakes coming out of them. During all of this, he keeps his gaze towards the totem on his arm, which represents his freedom and ability to escape all of that.

Mary Jane

This piece was inspired by this unbelievably perfect beautiful OG Kush nug I saw in a bag of marijuana. It was glorious!!!! The nug was purple and had a bunch of orange hairs on it. It was the most beautiful nug I've ever seen. It was glorious!!!!! Wait, did I already say that?

LSD Dog

Happy Tree

This is one happy tree. It has many things near him that he uses to keep his 3rd eye open and keep himself free of knowledge. The eight ball is for taking calculated risks, the water is for all the tears that must be spilt, the rocket tower is for travelling, and the violin is for love of music.

California

This is inspired by the California flag. The bear has guns in it's back because it's his right to "bear" arms. There is money flying around in the air because California has lots of it, you just need the right net to catch it with. The red eyes are for all the damn red-light cameras all over town between downtown LA and Santa Monica.

Between the Trees

Scatterbrain

In some way, shape, or form, this is how the brain creates dreams. Taking random and surreal thought combinations and turning them into something we can see and feel, only while we sleep. All this coming from just some cell tissue and water.

Blob

I wanted to draw a creature with a lot of eyes who was from another planet. He was dropped off by his friends here as a joke. Because he has so many eyes, he sees things more clearly than the humans and he's angry because he clearly sees how messed up this world is.

Greenback

Reel Life

For some, like this guy, fishing is life and life is fishing. Nothing else matters. This one is for my friend who moved away to Lake Havasu to become a pro bass fisherman. He always says he's living the "reel life" out there.

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Money on My Mind

This is the story of a powerful man who's passion was chasing money. As he was dying, all of his different layers melted away, one by one. The layer that was last to melt away was his desire for money. Even as he takes his last breath, that money is still on his mind, and he's reaching for it.

Santa's Little Helper

Even Santa needs a little pick-me-up every now and then. Especially right before delivering all that yummy wax and buds to all the children of the world. So what if he dabs up before getting behind the sleigh? Rudolph is steering anyways....and don't forget to leave cookies!

2 Steps Back

In life we always have to move forward, but we must be careful in doing so. Sometimes that means taking 2 steps back to feel things out. Then we can move forward again. This guy is confused, not sure if he's moving forward or backward.

3 Headed Flower

In case you've never been to Venice Beach, there is a "freak show" there. They have all kinds of abnormalities of nature - 2 headed snakes and pigs, 4 headed lizards . This is my take on that - a 3 headed flower.

Stranded

The tree is you. The houses on either side of you are the male and female houses that govern your inside emotions, which is the water. Always try to keep all that water in check, delicately keeping your emotions balanced.

Reincarnation

One of the many circles of life. The water flows to the ground and feeds the tree that gives life to the skull, which gives life to all the creatures living inside of it. Everybody and everything is connected, one way or another.

Almost

This guy is almost free, but he's not quite there yet. He's finally above the ground, after being under it for many years. Although he's broken through, there are still some karma debts yet to be payed back. Once he's paid off, he will escape the dark underworld......until karma brings him back.

Soap Box

Nathan

This one is inspired by Nathan Pino, who plays piano on the Venice Beach boardwalk. Few people look at him as anything more than a piano player, but I got to know him during my time painting there. He's an incredibly kind person and his soul lives in that piano.

Flower Power

These are hippy flowers (aren't they all?) that are still cheering for that flower power. The sun is happy, but has had enough already, so he's setting while the flowers and everyone else decides to celebrate.

Cut Flowers

LA

I love my city of LA, so I wanted to create a piece with more than just the "LA" letters... kind of like a story about LA. This is what I came up with....

You have the angel holding the city up, an illegal alien surfing in the La Brea tar pits, Hollywood stars all over the sky, ghetto birds, a broken 40oz bottle for the dead homies, and a setting sun over downtown LA.....to name a few things....

Taxi

This is the taxi of life. We think we all know where we are going, but really we have no idea most of the time. And we think we'll know it when we get there, but we usually don't. We must remember that it's not entirely all up to us to navigate this alone, but it is up to us to maintain balance.

Strength

This guy has so much on his mind that he's having trouble keeping his shit together. It takes strength to keep it all together and he's almost out of it. The predators are there waiting for him to fall apart. He just wants to escape it all in the comfort of his old fishing boat, and sail away.

Face Inside

This person is living inside their own prison. Out here in Holly-weird, CA, people put themselves in a prision when they don't feel "attractive" enough for the status quo. It's part of the ugly make-up that is created here by the unrealistic expectations young people get from the media.

Charriot

It's the year 2050 and we've inhabitated Mars. The aliens have shown us how to build a suitable vehicle to withstand gravity and we have shown them hot rods. This is the final result after many attempts. Your charriot awaits.....

Musical Sun

Nose Dive

This is the grand finale to the circus show - the nose dive into a barrel from an absurd height. However, this will be this performers final leap. After jumping, he will escape from his captors who force him to perform every night, through the cut out in the barrel where he'll swim to freedom.

Desert Flower

The feeling when you have completely given up after trying your absolute hardest. You can do nothing now but sit down and put up the white flag. Take a moment to accept it and find some good in it, and then get back up and keep moving forward.

Happy Music

This piece was inspired by all the wonderful music you'll hear walking down the Venice Beach boardwalk. So many different types of people playing different types of music. It's a beautiful thing and it's one of the things I miss most about being there everyday.

Dunkees Rebirth

Without giving too many details, this was a transitional time in my life. Epiphany and serendipity was plentiful in my life for a moment and it changed me as a person, and as an artist. I wouldn't be here today without my "rebirth."

Beach Rat

Pile

This is about a close friend of mine (he's standing on the tongue) that had a lot on his mind. So much in fact, that it all exploded into the universe. The spirders are his fears. The eyes are the people watching and judging him. The tree in the palm of the hand is for things getting cold with his family. He was very disturbed and wasn't much more than a messy pile of emotions when I saw him.